Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Zionphobia

1. Good point:http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6452Speaking of detention camps

The next time some British politician talks about how awful Guantanamo Bayis, it is time to remind him of some scenes depicted in the movie Exodus,about the British military detention camps set up on Cyprus after WW II tohold Jewish refugees caught trying to go to Palestine. As long as they aredecrying good conditions, let us remind them about really harsh ones.Quote:

The Decision to Detain Jews in Cyprus Transshipment and detention campson the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, in which the British authoritiesheld Jewish .illegal. immigrants, most of them European survivors of theHolocaust trying to enter Palestine. On August 7, 1946, the Britishgovernment made a decision to detain these Jews in Cyprus, hoping thatthis deterrent would put an end to Jewish illegal immigration. Thedecision was geared to the British policy of breaking the power of the.Hebrew resistance movement. in Palestine. But before long, the Britishcame to realize that detention was not achieving the desired aim; thewould . be immigrants continued their attempts to reach Palestine despiteviolent clashes with British troops and transshipment to Cyprus. The useof the Cyprus detention camps began on August 13, 1946, and ended onFebruary 10, 1949, when the last group of detainees left for what hadbecome the state of Israel. During this period, fifty two thousand Jewspassed through the Cyprus camps, having been taken off thirty . nine boatsin their attempts to get to Palestine. To this number must be added twenty. two hundred children who were born in the camps. Some detainees spentonly a few months in Cyprus, but many were held there for a year orlonger.Jack Kemp (not the politician) 10 26 06

3. Zionphobia:http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30691/format/html/displaystory.htmlDaniel Pearl.s parents fighting .Zionophobia. one journalist at a time

by joe eskenazistaff writer

You know what Judea Pearl could do without? Sentences that begin: .It.s ashame your son was kidnapped and murdered, but . .

He.s getting really tired of the .but..

.I am not happy with the typical response we get from the Muslim world,which is that so many Muslims are being slaughtered in Iraq and Kashmirand Palestine and Chechnya, so what.s all this fuss about an AmericanJewish journalist?. recalls Pearl, the father of Daniel Pearl, the WallStreet Journal reporter killed by terrorists four years ago in Pakistan.

.This is a technique of blurring the definition of terrorism,. he said ina phone interview. .The argument is based on counting bodies regardless ofintention. It.s an attempt to say that everybody is a terrorist..

Pearl has fighting words for many in both the Muslim and Jewishcommunities, but he isn.t fighting with fists or missiles. Through theDaniel Pearl Foundation . he.s the president and his wife, Ruth, is theCFO . he.s working to combat hatred and intolerance through the mediumshis son excelled in: journalism, music and dialogue.

.We are trying to change the world. We are trying to bring some sanityinto this world,. says Ruth Pearl.

The couple, both 70 and both American-Israeli dual citizens, were atStanford on Tuesday, Oct. 17 for the inaugural Daniel Pearl MemorialLecture; CNN.s Christiane Amanpour spoke to a capacity crowd of roughly800.

The lecture series is just one of many projects that have become full-timejobs for the Pearls. Ruth is running the foundation, and Judea, a computerscience professor at UCLA, is burning the midnight oil as well.

Most readers know of Daniel Pearl only in the context of his death and thehostage crisis which led up to it, so it may come as a surprise that Pearlwas a funny guy who played the violin and mandolin in a number of bands.The Pearl foundation has helped to organize roughly 360 concerts in 36countries to spread the message of tolerance and cooperation through musicand dialogue, just as Daniel Pearl did in life.

The foundation has also started a program in which journalists from Muslimnations are given the chance to work at American newspapers, either asworking writers or as observers.

So far, writers and editors from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen and Nepalhave gotten the chance to contribute at the Los Angeles Times and,intriguingly, the L.A. Jewish Journal.

.We met the editor of the Saudi Gazette at the airport and spent time withhim, and he turned to me and said, .You two are the first Jewish people Ihave ever met,.. recalled Ruth Pearl.

Another journalist .went back to Yemen and organized training seminars. Healso publicly responded to the Arab journalist organization that suggestedno Arab journalist should be trained in the West. We have strongconnections with these people. A journalist has an impact that is fargreater than one person.s. An editor has even more..

Daniel Pearl.s murder at age 39 changed his parents. world forever, as itwould for anyone who outlived their child. But the Pearls decided to domore than just grieve.

.Everything we do now, we have never done before. I was dealing withequations, and Ruth was dealing with computer software,. said Judea Pearl..Now we are engaged with social activism..

Pearl blames .classical anti-Semitism. for fueling the men who killed hisson, but also sees .Zionophobia,. a term he coined. Zionophobia isdifferent from anti-Semitism, and he feels the organized Jewish communityhas been slow and incompetent in fighting it.

.Denying Jewish people the right for nationhood is straight racism, notanti-Semitism. Jews fight Zionophobia by labeling it anti-Semitism, whichis a mistake. It is so easily deflected by saying .My best friends areJewish. or .I.ll go to prison to defend a Jew.s right to wear a yarmulkeor eat kosher food. but still want Israel to be abolished,. argues Pearl.

Bandying about the term anti-Semitism .makes us look paranoid. It makesthe whole fight against anti-Semitism lose its edge..

4. The next war:http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30719/format/html/displaystory.html

6. Tikkunizing Mount Scopus?The Hebrew University is hosting a joint Jewish-Palestinian conferencesdevtored to making peace through promiting the use of cannabis. Really.See http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3319707,00.html

At .First Israeli-Arab Joint. conference at Hebrew University inJerusalem, pro-marijuana party presents its vision for Mideast peace .through pot: .Cannabis brings about a basis for common identity.

Weed for peace? Marijuana may achieve the end of the Israeli-Palestinianconflict - or at least so believe members of the Green Leaf party, whichorganized the First Israeli-Arab Joint conference at Jerusalem.s HebrewUniversity Wednesday.